La Paz, January 20 (RHC)-- A Bolivian judge has ruled that Luis Fernando Camacho, a prominent right-wing politician and governor of the South American country’s largest department, will remain in detention as he awaits trial on charges of “terrorism”.... More
Caracas, January 20 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, held this Thursday a meeting in Caracas with the former president of the government of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, official sources informed. According to the Venezuelan News Agency (AVN), the meeting was also attended by the President of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, and the Vice President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez.... More
Lima, January 20 (RHC)-- One person was killed and ten injured Thursday in the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa in clashes amid anti-government demonstrations, the Ombudsman's Office said on Twitter.... More
Paris, January 20 (RHC)-- Teachers, train drivers, and refinery workers in France are among those who have joined a nationwide day of strikes, as anger rages over the government’s plans to raise the pension age by two years to 64.... More
Brasilia, January 20 (RHC)-- The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says that the former ultra-right leader Jair Bolsonaro has "a lot to do" with the coup attempt of last January 8, and said that if his participation is proven, he must be punished.... More
Quito, January 20 (RHC)-- Workers of the state-owned company Petroecuador in Quito began this Wednesday an indefinite strike in demand of fair wages and in rejection of the poor conditions in hydrocarbon fields.... More
Atlanta, January 20 (RHC)-- In Atlanta, Georgia, protests against a planned police training center known as Cop City escalated, when police say they shot and killed an activist who was part of the demonstrations. ... More
London, January 20 (RHC)-- Climate activists with Extinction Rebellion gathered in canary costumes and doused a U.K. government building with black paint to protest the recent approval of the country's first new deep coal mine in three decades.... More
Brasilia, January 20 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will hold talks on February 10th in Washington with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, official sources confirmed Thursday. The agenda with Biden had been negotiated since the transition period and the ratification of the official trip was also made on Wednesday by Lula himself during an event at the Planalto Palace, seat of the Executive Power in this capital.... More
Brasilia, January 19 (RHC)-- Brazil's Supreme Court has ordered preventive detention for 140 far-right activists who were detained during the attempted coup d'état on January 8th.... More
Santo Domingo, January 19 (RHC)-- The Dominican Republic's Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (Mispas) announced on Wednesday that 85 000 vaccines against cholera would arrive in the country next week.... More
Davos, January 19 (RHC)-- The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, expressed Wednesday at the Davos Forum that the world is in a "lamentable state."... More
Lima, January 19 (RHC)-- The Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) has presented a report showing that the military shot with the intent to kill in at least 10 cases of citizens killed during protests against President Dina Boluarte.... More
Berlin, January 18 (RHC)-- Climate protests are continuing in Germany over the expansion of an open-pit coal mine in the village of Lützerath in western Germany. ... More
Tokyo, January 18 (RHC)-- Pacific Island nations have urged Japan to delay the release of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant over fears it could contaminate fishing grounds. The appeal on Wednesday came days after Japan announced that treated wastewater from the Fukushima plant — which was destroyed in an earthquake and a tsunami in 2011 — could be released into the sea “around this spring or summer.”... More
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